Recherche de biscuits perdu

I shall start this blog with a couple of literary references, neither as yet checked. My French is also not strong enough to be sure whether biscuits needs ‘perdu’ or ‘perdue’. Anyway, Proust wanted to do a bit of rediscovering of the past, and managed something like that through the (for him) evocative taste of …

From soup to shining soup

Back to the (primeval) soup…here are the results of the next batches: – broccoli and Cheddar: a particularly fetching green, biggest thumbs up – curried parsnip: not as nice a colour, but very soothing – carrot and carroway: lovely colour, great smell while the seeds are cooking, great taste too – curried green lentil: yet …

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup

When I was still putting our news into yearly letters for Christmas time, I found myself wanting to categorise different years by activity: the year of the flat, the year of decorating, or whatever. I’m not sure whether it feels like that anymore, as certain tasks come round again, or get repeated. However, there is …